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Identifier: belltelephonevol21mag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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tivity, since the printing of the daily addendum for cities located several hundred miles away is a carefully timed night-shift operation with a definite deadline. To assure delivery of the addendum before eight o'clock the following morning, arrangements are made for special mail or express handling on a night train arriving at the distant city at an early hour and for regularly scheduled pick-up and delivery to the Information center. One set of hard metal type used for the daily addendum, the alphabetical Information directory, and the regular customer directory, is now recognized as the most efficient plan where the Information records and the regular directory can be handled by the same printer. Under this arrangement, the listing slugs set up originally for the daily addendum are transferred to the standing type for the Information directory when a new issue of the latter record is to be printed. The Information directory in most cases is printed over a weekend, since the accumulated type for
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Ready for the Press The rolling table tilts to a horizontal position at the exact height of the press bed, minimizing the lifting of the type form 24 Bell Telephone Magazine FEBRUARY the daily addendum ordinarily can be used during that period without interfering with the production of the daily addendum. In printing the regular customer directory, the standing type for the Information directory is reformed into standard-size pages preliminary to making the plates from which the directory is printed. After the regular directory has been printed, the type is again arranged in Information directory page style and is ready for the next issue of that directory. Mechanical Improvements there is, of course, considerably more handling of the standing type in the printing of Information directories than in the case of regular directories. In connection with each reprint the type must be removed from storage racks, listing slugs added and removed, the type pages locked up and placed on the press, and t

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